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Help yourself to a speedy and minimally painful knee replacement recovery. This easy-to-follow book is the result of clinical physical therapy practice in 5 states with hundreds of knee replacement patients over the course of 20 years. Despite most patients getting very similar information instruction and exercises, there is a high amount of variability in speed of recovery and perceived difficulty of the recovery process.

This book helps you understand and avoid the 5 major pitfalls that ensnare most knee replacement patients and provides you with an easy to use system that leads you through an accelerated path of recovery safely with the least amount of pain and pain medicine possible.

Potential patients in the 40-64 year old category should especially seek the strategies encompassed in this book. The current rehabilitation system was created 20 years ago to cater to retires.

Now, many patients have only a narrow time frame to complete their recovery before having to get back to work. Find out how to avoid burning valuable PTO time and wasting money on extra high co-pays for therapy services ($30-$40 per visit). Recovery from a total knee replacement need not be a daunting project filled with doubt, worry and stress.

Do yourself a favor, take control of the recovery process before you get on the surgical table by educating yourself. You can easily get fast and relatively pain free results by learning simple principles and following the Fast Track program.

Go ahead, get on the Fast Track now.

Announcement for all those non DIY types, the Fast Track FLEX bar is now available on Amazon for delivery right to your doorstep. Just search for "Fast Track FLEX Bar". The FLEX bar product currently includes the physical book as well.

L'autore

Michelle Stiles called "the no nonsense" therapist, by her patients, created a company called Cowboy Up Recovery after recognizing the bankruptcy of the present medical model. Too many people regard conventional medical wisdom as gospel, ignoring the subversive influences of Big Pharma and Big Medicine. She believes, Americans in general are being trained from an early age to defer to experts in numerous areas of life and losing the impulses for self-responsibility and self-reliance in the process. Over-diagnosis and over-medicating has become endemic. While thankful for the best miracles of modern medicine, she encourages people of all persuasions to listen to their bodies and seek out answers to maintain not just an absence of disease but optimal health. Her advice is: Cowboy Up, no one cares more about your health than you do.

This is an excellent primer for the individual considering total knee replacement surgery and the rehabilitation thereafter. It is written in layman's terms in a simple and direct format. As a physical therapist with 29 years of experience treating hundreds of patients who have undergone this surgery, I completely agree with the principles that Ms. Stiles espouses. Her emphasis on the need to concentrate on range of motion gains early, and the amount of work needed to make these gains, is spot on. Her discussion on pain control should be read and heeded. What I most liked about the book is how it will help the prospective total knee patient have more control over their own rehabilitation by showing them simple tools they can use to assist in and monitor their progress.

The best review can only come from someone who actually used the information in a book or other product and can vouchsafe for its effectiveness. I have never considered a knee replacement yet. But I have a torn ACL and wanted to be informed - just in case, so to speak.

I'm glad I picked up this book. I had no idea that there were so many things to know before ever considering knee replacement. And if you've already had the surgery recently or are experiencing problems long after the procedure, you really should pick up this book.

It is written in a very accessible style - not like a medical manual, thank goodness. It is easy to read. But most importantly, the ideas and methods described are, if I may, a part of this process our society is undergoing that I would characterize as "becoming aware of things hidden heretofore." Basically, we are becoming increasingly aware of possibilities that lie outside the establishment. And this book is a step in that direction.

It is not easy to find proper medical attention these days. This book will help individualize your knee replacement and help get a better outcome, in my humble opinion.

11 di 13 persone hanno trovato utile la seguente recensione

2.0 su 5 stellefocuses on her personal ideas9 marzo 2014

Di K Jackson - Pubblicato su Amazon.com

Formato:Formato Kindle|Acquisto verificato

I quickly read this book 10 days prior to total knee replacement surgery. The author presents a do-able, but not unique exercise program to improve recovery after surgery. I found nothing new in her book that I had not learned previously from my own physical therapist and other books I had read. The author expresses preferences for certain equipment she feels is necessary. She tells you how to find or make these items. Again, this was not new information. I have read much more comprehensive books about total knee replacement and found those much more helpful.

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5.0 su 5 stelleWow... Every patient should read this before Total Knee replacement surgery.1 febbraio 2014

Di Amazon Customer - Pubblicato su Amazon.com

Formato:Formato Kindle|Acquisto verificato

I could not put this book down. THANK YOU Michelle! I am due to have surgery in a couple of weeks andI feel much more prepared mentally and physically to go through with the surgery.I am enlisting more help and changed plans. She always affirmed that I have a great doctor as his post surgery thinking is right in line with hersIt was helpful to learn that walking without the walker right away is NOT a victory, that the flexion and extension is the more immediate goal. I was really upset that he wanted me up ( with the walker), moving my knee, out of the hospital, and in Physical Therapy right away. AND that that taking the medication early on to help with pain is OK..Great book..I just sent it to my friend that had surgery a week ago.. No physical therapy really yet, in lots of pain, and bragging that he was walking without the walker in one week... THAT explains all the pain he is still in... not good.

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5.0 su 5 stelleTHE Missing Piece!!28 marzo 2014

Di Kurt Heitman - Pubblicato su Amazon.com

Formato:Copertina flessibile|Acquisto verificato

This is THE missing piece I needed! This is the only thing I found that has a SPECIFIC plan on getting your range of motion back as fast as possible. I wasn't making any progress and was starting to get despondent. I have made significant progress and I've only had this book for a week. The slider with the yard stick and the modified walker are absolutely brilliant!